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Technology12 Jun 2025

Sandia to help propel US semiconductor manufacturing

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has joined a new partnership aimed at helping the United States regain its leadership in semiconductor manufacturing. While the U.S. was considered a powerhouse in chip production in the 1990s, fabricating more than 35% of the world’s semiconductors, that share has since dropped to 12%. Today, the U.S. manufactures none of the world’s most advanced chips which power technologies like smartphones, owned by 71% of the world’s population, as well as self-driving cars, quantum computers, and artificial intelligence-powered ...

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Technology12 Jun 2025

United Nations launches global call-to-action to accelerate social progress through AI-powered virtual worlds

Turin, Italy — 12 June 2025 — Eighteen UN entities joined forces today during the 2nd UN Virtual Worlds Day to urge governments, civil society, academia, and the private sector to harness the transformative potential of AI-powered virtual worlds to drive development that works for all. The call-to-action outlines 12 priorities—from expanding connectivity to promoting responsible use of emerging technologies—in order to ensure that no one is left behind in the fast-evolving digital era. The two-day global forum brought together leaders, innovators, and youth changemakers from around the world to spotlight how emerging technologies—from ...

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Technology11 Jun 2025

Single-material electronic skin gives robots the human touch

Scientists have developed a low-cost, durable, highly-sensitive robotic ‘skin’ that can be added to robotic hands like a glove, enabling robots to detect information about their surroundings in a way that’s similar to humans. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and University College London (UCL), developed the flexible, conductive skin, which is easy to fabricate and can be melted down and formed into a wide range of complex shapes. The technology senses and processes a range of physical inputs, allowing robots to interact with the physical world in a more meaningful way. Unlike other ...

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Technology11 Jun 2025

Photonic processor could streamline 6G wireless signal processing

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- As more connected devices demand an increasing amount of bandwidth for tasks like teleworking and cloud computing, it will become extremely challenging to manage the finite amount of wireless spectrum available for all users to share. Engineers are employing artificial intelligence to dynamically manage the available wireless spectrum, with an eye toward reducing latency and boosting performance. But most AI methods for classifying and processing wireless signals are power-hungry and can’t operate in real-time. Now, MIT researchers have developed a novel AI hardware accelerator that is specifically designed for wireless signal processing. Their optical processor ...

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Technology11 Jun 2025

Minister unveils first of its kind AI for Science Master's

The Minister for AI and Digital Government launched the UK’s first of its kind AI for Science Master’s programme at King’s College London. Feryal Clark MP joined leading King’s interdisciplinary scientists at the Quad to announce the new programme, which will draw expertise from across disciplines, including biosciences, humanities, social sciences, mathematics, security and law – preparing AI experts of the future in an ever-changing world. The Master’s is part of King’s major £45.5 million investment into science – helping to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing us all. The investment is advancing knowledge, ...

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Technology11 Jun 2025

New quantum navigation device uses atoms to measure acceleration in 3D

In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used a cloud of atoms chilled down to incredibly cold temperatures to simultaneously measure acceleration in three dimensions—a feat that many scientists didn’t think was possible. The device, a new type of atom “interferometer,” could one day help people navigate submarines, spacecraft, cars and other vehicles more precisely. “Traditional atom interferometers can only measure acceleration in a single ...

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Technology11 Jun 2025

Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”

Art restoration takes steady hands and a discerning eye. For centuries, conservators have restored paintings by identifying areas needing repair, then mixing an exact shade to fill in one area at a time. Often, a painting can have thousands of tiny regions requiring individual attention. Restoring a single painting can take anywhere from a few weeks to over a decade. In recent years, digital restoration tools have opened a route to creating virtual representations of original, restored works. These tools apply techniques of computer vision, image recognition, and color matching, to generate a “digitally restored” version of a painting relatively quickly. Still, there has ...

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Technology11 Jun 2025

NIST and partners use quantum mechanics to make a factory for random numbers

Randomness is incredibly useful. People often draw straws, throw dice or flip coins to make fair choices. Random numbers can enable auditors to make completely unbiased selections. Randomness is also key in security; if a password or code is an unguessable string of numbers, it’s harder to crack. Many of our cryptographic systems today use random number generators to produce secure keys. But how do you know that a random number is truly random? Classical computer algorithms can only create pseudo-random numbers, and someone with enough knowledge of the algorithm or the system could ...

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Technology11 Jun 2025

World’s first non-silicon 2D computer developed

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Silicon is king in the semiconductor technology that underpins smartphones, computers, electric vehicles and more, but its crown may be slipping according to a team led by researchers at Penn State. In a world first, they used two-dimensional (2D) materials, which are only an atom thick and retain their properties at that scale, unlike silicon, to develop a computer capable of simple operations. The development, published today (June 11) in Nature, represents a major leap toward the realization of thinner, faster and more energy-efficient electronics, the researchers said. They created a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor ...

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Technology11 Jun 2025

First-of-its-kind technology helps man with ALS ‘speak’ in real time

(Sacramento, Calif.) — Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have developed an investigational brain-computer interface that holds promise for restoring the voices of people who have lost the ability to speak due to neurological conditions. In a new study published in the scientific journal Nature, the researchers demonstrate how this new technology can instantaneously translate brain activity into voice as a person tries to speak — effectively creating a digital vocal tract. The system allowed the study participant, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), to “speak” through a computer ...

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Technology11 Jun 2025

Methanol poisoning could be easily detected with a ‘breathalyzer’ sensor

Breathalyzers are a frequently used tool to measure the amount of ethanol in someone’s breath, which relates to their blood alcohol content. However, alcoholic beverages contaminated by methanol (sometimes called wood alcohol) are hard to identify and toxic if ingested. Researchers reporting in ACS Sensors have developed a prototype sensor that quickly and easily detects small amounts of methanol in breath — a step toward developing a “methanol breathalyzer” to efficiently diagnose poisonings. Methanol and ethanol, despite being structurally similar, have vastly different effects on the body when ingested. Ethanol gives ...

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Technology11 Jun 2025

Window-sized device taps the air for safe drinking water

Today, 2.2 billion people in the world lack access to safe drinking water. In the United States, more than 46 million people experience water insecurity, living with either no running water or water that is unsafe to drink. The increasing need for drinking water is stretching traditional resources such as rivers, lakes, and reservoirs. To improve access to safe and affordable drinking water, MIT engineers are tapping into an unconventional source: the air. The Earth’s atmosphere contains millions of billions of gallons of water in the form of vapor. If this vapor can be efficiently captured and condensed, it could supply clean drinking water in ...

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Technology10 Jun 2025

Tradition meets AI as Leicester scientists help tackle Amazonian biodiversity crisis

Traditional Amazonian communities will be using artificial intelligence to help scientists monitor biodiversity in the world’s largest tropical rainforest. The scientists are developing an AI-driven digital toolkit to enable traditional Amazonian communities to monitor and maintain socio-biodiversity in the Amazon region, as well as facilitate their engagement with the bioeconomy. The University of Leicester’s School of Geography, Geology and the Environment and Institute of Environmental Futures have launched a major new research initiative aimed at tackling the growing social-biodiversity and climate challenges facing the Amazon rainforest. Social ...

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Technology10 Jun 2025

Magnetic microrobot mechanically mixes microscopic materials

WASHINGTON, June 10, 2025 – Chemistry often conjures images of mixing fluids together in beakers, flasks, or test tubes. But often, chemistry happens on a much smaller scale. In many medical and industrial contexts, mixing fluids involves fractions of a milliliter, and for these applications, sometimes the best tool is a microscopic robot. In Nanotechnology and Precision Engineering, by AIP Publishing, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the China Electric Power Research Institute developed a microrobot capable of manipulating small droplets in the presence of magnetic fields. To make their robot, the researchers mixed neodymium magnetic ...

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Technology10 Jun 2025

Cutting-edge technology expands dictionary of human metabolism

Human metabolism is a complex web of chemical processes and interactions between our cells and the microbes living within us. The more scientists can identify and classify the molecules involved in our metabolism, called metabolites, the more we can learn about human health and disease. Now, researchers at University of California San Diego have made a major advance in our understanding of human metabolism by describing hundreds of new N-acyl lipids, a type of molecule involved in immune and stress responses. The main findings of the study, published in Cell, were: The researchers identified 851 distinct N-acyl lipids across various tissues and biofluids, ...

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Technology10 Jun 2025

The MIT Press acquires University Science Books from AIP Publishing

The textbook publisher will transfer to the MIT Press as of July 2025 in time for Fall 2025 course adoptions. The MIT Press is proud to announce the acquisition of textbook publisher University Science Books from AIP Publishing, a subsidiary of the American Institute of Physics. University Science Books was founded in 1978 to publish intermediate and advanced level science and reference books by respected authors, published with the highest design and production standards, and priced as affordably as possible. Over the years, USB’s ...

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Technology10 Jun 2025

Drive an electric motor without metal! KIST develops CNT-based ultra-lightweight coil technology

Whether it's electric vehicles, drones, or spacecraft, a common technical challenge for future transportation is lightweighting. Reducing the weight of a vehicle not only reduces energy consumption, but also increases battery efficiency and increases range. This is considered a key technology that is directly linked to sustainability, as it improves the performance of the system as a whole and thus contributes to reducing carbon emissions. Electric motors in particular are an essential component of most electric mobility vehicles, and coils account for a large ...

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Technology9 Jun 2025

Carbon capture method mines cement ingredients from the air

University of Michigan researchers have helped develop a method to take carbon dioxide, an industrial waste product that pollutes the atmosphere and turn it into something useful: precursors to make cement. U-M chemist Charles McCrory and his research group, along with Jesús Velázquez's lab at the University of California, Davis and Anastassia Alexandrova's lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, have developed a method to capture carbon dioxide and turn it into metal oxalates, which then can be used as precursors for ...

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Technology9 Jun 2025

Robots made of linked particle chains

Coordinated behaviors like swarming – from ant colonies to schools of fish – are found everywhere in nature. Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have given a nod to nature with a next-generation robot system that’s capable of movement, exploration, transport and cooperation. A study in Science Advances describing the new soft robotic system was co-led by L. Mahadevan, the Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, Physics, and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology ...

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Technology9 Jun 2025

Light and AI drive precise motion in soft robotic arm developed at Rice

HOUSTON – (June 9, 2025) – Researchers at Rice University have developed a soft robotic arm capable of performing complex tasks such as navigating around an obstacle or hitting a ball, guided and powered remotely by laser beams without any onboard electronics or wiring. The research could inform new ways to control implantable surgical devices or industrial machines that need to handle delicate objects. In a proof-of-concept study that integrates smart materials, machine learning and an optical control system, a team of Rice researchers led by materials scientist Hanyu Zhu used a light-patterning device to ...

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Technology9 Jun 2025

SNU researchers develop world's first 3D microphone capable of position estimation with a single sensor

Seoul National University College of Engineering announced that Professor Sung-Hoon Ahn's team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering has developed a novel auditory technology that allows the recognition of human positions using only a single microphone. This technology facilitates sound-based interaction between humans and robots, even in noisy factory environments. The research team has successfully implemented the world's first 3D auditory sensor that "sees space with ears" through sound source localization and acoustic communication technologies. The research findings were published on January 27 in the international ...

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Technology9 Jun 2025

New book: Machine Learning in Quantum Sciences

New book: Machine Learning in Quantum Sciences Cambridge University Press has published a new book Machine Learning in Quantum Science Machine Learning in Quantum Sciences co-authored by researchers from the University of Warsaw, offering both an introduction to machine learning and deep neural networks, and an overview of their applications in quantum physics and chemistry — from reinforcement learning for controlling quantum experiments to neural networks used as representations of many-body quantum states. The book appears at a time when artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly recognized tool for scientific discovery — a development recently recognized ...

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Technology9 Jun 2025

MBARI research and technology play integral role in new Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences

This year marks the opening of the United Nations Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences, an international initiative focused on the rapid changes occurring in glaciers, snow cover, ice sheets, sea ice, and permafrost and their impacts on the planet. MBARI’s cutting-edge research and technology will play a critical role in this effort, providing important data about the Arctic seafloor and the Southern Ocean. “Ice-covered ocean and land are integral to the health of our planet and host unique communities of life. The Decade of Action for Cryospheric ...

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Technology9 Jun 2025

Urgent policy actions needed to address real AI threats, scientist reveals

International regulation of tech giants, intellectual property reform, and preparation for workforce disruption must be prioritized by policymakers as artificial intelligence transforms society. These are the arguments of AI expert Professor Shalom Lappin, which he backs with comprehensive research in his new book Understanding the Artificial Intelligence Revolution. “The public domain and its citizens need to play a major role in determining the framework within which AI technology continues to develop,” argues Lappin, who holds positions at Queen Mary University of ...

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Technology8 Jun 2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Mount Sinai experts present research at SLEEP 2025

(New York, NY – June 8, 2025) – Sleep medicine experts from the Mount Sinai Health System are presenting new research at SLEEP 2025, the 39th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, from June 8-11 in Seattle. Please let me know if you would like to coordinate an interview about their work. The doctors and researchers are also available to comment on other breaking news and trending topics. The research appears in an online supplement of the journal, Sleep. These abstracts are available for ...

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